School, Anief: too many delays, appeals for new pensioners start

The trade union Anief opens up appeals also for new pensioners: this is a protection to be adopted in all cases, unfortunately not rare, of omission or delay in the payment of retirement benefits. Already in recent months, the lawyers Giovanni Rinaldi, Walter Miceli, Fabio Ganci and Nicola Zampieri - all lawyers with long-standing ties to Anief - have won the first appeals to the labour judge with an order to pay the costs, for the delay, well beyond the terms of the law, of the payment, by the Inps, of the severance pay to precarious staff.

A decision, that of Anief, which comes on the heels of the record numbers of appeals won in May 2026 alone, with the autonomous union's lawyers having been able to recover as much as 2,649,326 euros, the result of 813 judgments won. "At this point," comments Marcello Pacifico, national president of Anief, "for us, every threshold of tolerance has been exceeded: our union has therefore decided to protect, along with the precarious workers, all the school workers who have retired and continue to receive unfair treatment. As if we lived in a country without rights and without rules. As far as we are concerned, the situation is unacceptable: for this reason, we have decided to take action, initiating disputes in defence of school workers, including retired ones, and of their dignity as citizens'.

Anief's legal department has also joined the appeal pending before the Constitutional Court (order 25 of 5 March 2026), which has given the legislature time, until 14 January 2027, to amend the current legislation on the delayed severance pay of state employees. "Those who work in the school, recalls Marcello Pacifico - and were hired after 2000 have a worse severance pay than those who work in the private sector, because they have a monthly deduction of 2.5% contribution for the severance pay that instead, in the private sector, is entirely borne by the employer. Moreover, the delayed pension is inconceivable, since the 8 per cent has always been withheld monthly in the worker's pay envelope against a merely notional contribution paid by the State during the employment relationship. Therefore,' the autonomous trade unionist concludes, 'we have decided to break all delays, to the point of saying that we are ready to go to court to unblock the pension cheques, just as we are doing to recover Tfs and Tfr'.

The Anief union also points out that recourse to the courts becomes necessary in order to obtain the due compensation, both for the violation of European regulations and to convince the Italia legislator to adapt its regulations. Pacifico recalls, in particular, "that it is possible to ask for free advice on one's state of service by joining the 'Non un euro di meno' screening campaign. To take part in the action, all you have to do is fill in the online form, and your request will be evaluated free of charge by the Anief legal office. The member will then be contacted by the same union. Finally, it is always possible to join the Anief appeals directly, if there are grounds for doing so,' the union concludes.